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The concise book of lying / Evelin Sullivan.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Picador USA, 2002.Edition: 1st Picador USA pbk. edDescription: xiv, 334 p. : ill. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 0312420471
  • 9780312420475
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 177/.3 21
LOC classification:
  • BF 637  S949c 2002
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Contents:
The Bible : a casebook -- Deception at first light -- Why liars lie -- How to weave, and sell, a tangled web -- The high cost of lying -- Liars, liars, liars! -- Deep down, I knew ... -- The APEX Truth Meterª -- The ordeal -- Generals, Greeks, and other liars -- The briar patch revisted -- Even educated flies do it.
Summary: One bright morning in the third century B.C. the philosopher Diogenes set out with a lantern in search of an honest man. His doomed gesture makes the point clear: in some way or another, we are all liars. In The Concise Book of Lying, professor Sullivan tackles this most pervasive of sins, using history and mythology, anecdote and analysis to shed light#x14;pace the first cynic#x14;on our long relationship with
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Item type Current library Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Humanidades Humanidades (4to. Piso) BF 637 S949c 2002 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000067825

Originally published: New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2001.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-320) and index.

The Bible : a casebook -- Deception at first light -- Why liars lie -- How to weave, and sell, a tangled web -- The high cost of lying -- Liars, liars, liars! -- Deep down, I knew ... -- The APEX Truth Meterª -- The ordeal -- Generals, Greeks, and other liars -- The briar patch revisted -- Even educated flies do it.

One bright morning in the third century B.C. the philosopher Diogenes set out with a lantern in search of an honest man. His doomed gesture makes the point clear: in some way or another, we are all liars. In The Concise Book of Lying, professor Sullivan tackles this most pervasive of sins, using history and mythology, anecdote and analysis to shed light#x14;pace the first cynic#x14;on our long relationship with

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